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Oh man, I played Zoombinis when I was a kid, I loved that game and haven't thought about it in forever.
Zoombinis pro tip: The game allows you to create up to two zoombinis of each hair/eye/nose/transport configuration. You can make things way easier by making your party consist of 8 twinned zoombini pairs as opposed to the usual 16 distinct zoombinis. (For puzzles that depend on zoombini features, which is pretty much all of them, the solution for a given zoombini and it's twin will be the same.)
I love how the game's wikipedia page has a fairly detailed explanation of every puzzle...
So did I!
And, as far as I can remember, not only were the puzzles well designed, but there was a reasonably good overarching story with a definite goal, which meant the puzzles had purpose and there was a little sense of adventure too.
(I should really find the disk and play it again... hehe.)